Universal multiple cable clamp



Feb. 5, 1946.

* H. L. KINDORF UNIVERSAL MULTIPLE CABLE CLAMP Filed Feb. 14, 1944 3 SheetsSheet 1 HARRY L. KINDORF.

ATTORNEK Feb. 5,1946. H. 1.. KINDORF 2,394,518

UNIVERSAL MULTIPLE CABLE CLAMP I Filed Feb. 14, 1944 5 SheetsSheet 2 INVENTOR, HARRY L. K/NDORF.

ATTORIYEK Feb. 5, 1946. H. KINDORF 2,394,518 UNIVERSAL MULTIPLE CABLE CLAMP k Filed Feb. 14, 1944 5 Sheets-Sheet s INVENTORT HARRY L. K/NDORFI BY M A TTORNEK Patented Feb. 5, 1946 Harry L. Kindorf, San Francisco, Calif.

Application February 14, 1944, SerialNo. 522,363 (01. 248 -68) 7 Claims.

This invention relates to clamps for fastening, supporting, and retaining cables. pipes, rods, and the like in fixed position.

Objects of the invention are to provide clamps for fastening in fixed position one or any number of cables of the same or varying sizes, which are simple in construction, easy and inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble with what is to be clamped thereby, and other objects will beapparent in reading this specification.

A preferred exemplification of the invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings which form a part thereof, on which Fig. l is a plan view of a complete assembly;

Fig. 2 is a. section thereof on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a cross section Of the clamp showing a detail;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2 of a modified form of use of the invention;

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Figs. 2 and 5 showing a still different use;

Fig. '7 is a side elevation of the hook member;

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a gang of hook members illustrating the manufacture thereof;

Fig. 9 is a side elevation of a different form of hook member; and

Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a modification.

The invention comprises a base member H consistin preferably of a steel channel bar having a web 12 and flanges 3. The web has a longitudinal slot I4 therein; as well as fastening means such as holes it to permit Of fastening the base member to a wall or other suitable support as by bolts (not shown).

Cables of desired sizes are laid on the web crosswise of the base member in any desired manner, as for example the cables "5, l1, l8, I9; as seen on Figs. 1 and 2, the cables 2!, 22, 23 on Fig. 5 and the cables 24, 25, 23 on Fig. 6. The cables are such as are required and they may be laid in any order with respect to size, side by side or over each other.

Binding members 33 as shown on Figs. 4 and 7, of suitable sizes and shapes, hold each individual cable or group of cables, as may be desired. The ibinding'members 33 may all be similar in construction, having an arcuate portion 3|, each to fit the respective individual cable or group, the arcuate portion having substantially straight legs 32 at the end of one of which is a transverse member 33, and at the end of the other is a hook member 34 which may be formed by bending. At least that part of eachbinding member comprising the'hook part 34 is narrower than the slot M in the base member, so that it can be inserted easily therethrough; and the transverse member 33 is'of a length to pere mit it to lie crosswise below the web I2 within the channel with the ends of the transverse member under and against the under face-or inner side of the web, as seen onFig, 4. By;this arrangement,. such binding member, afterits transverse ;member 33 adjacent one end thereof is engaged against the inner side of the -web base 42, may be readily tilted longitudinally of the base so as to cause the intermediateportion thereof to be fitted. around a cable'to be clamped. Thus, the hook or bend part 34 at the end opposite to transverse member 33, provides a holding means adapted to be free-of holding engagement with the base, permitting such tilting until it is subsequently held fast.-

Retainin members 35 are provided to maintain the cables of each group l6,= I1, l8 or 2l, 22, 23 closely adjacent each other longitudinally of the base member as seen on Figs. 1, 2, 5,6 and 10. Any suitable retaining means may .be used, but that. preferred comprises a bar 36 crosswise at the lower face of the web 12, andabarfl, preferably having flanges 38 at the ends thereof, atv the outer face of the web of the channel iron. .Both thebars 36 and 31 haveperforationsregistering with each other. andlwith the slot [4, through which the shank of a bolt 39, preferably a carriage bolt, projects. A nut 3 3 is on such bolt, and when tightened fastens/the retaining member 35, in place on the base.m'em'ber. The ends of the bar 36 may be square to retainthe bar inproper crosswise position. The flanges 38 retain the bar 31 inl'propercrosswise position.

The base members are usually first fixed in .position where desired, and then the cables are-laid .on a base member. Thev cables may be temporar ly tied or wired to the base member, with each cable or pipe or each group l8, l9 thereof separated from the adjacent units sufficiently to permit of properly locating the binding'members 33 .for each unit. The binding members30 are then put in place individually by turning themat right angles to the position shown for example on Fig. 4, passing .the transverse member 33 through the slot M, then turning the binding member and placing it in position over the unit as shown on Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6 and 10, with the hook member 34 passed through theslot Hi and below the web l2; Or the temporary binding may be omitted. When all of the binding units 33 are thus in place, the

1 30 around the cables, which with which the cables are able, however. not to have hook adjacent binding members adjacent each other. Where very large and very small cables are legs 32,

' bers may be temporary bindings are removed, if they are used,

and the assembly is moved longitudinally of the base member ll so that the units are as close as possible to each. The hook members 34 fit under the transverse members 33 or under a retaining member 35 or under an end wall 42 of the slot l4, and are held thereby.- Such an end wall may be used in place of one of the retaining members in cases where the consequent loss in degree of ad justability offers no great disadvantage.

When the assembly of a clamp has been completed, the cables which clamp can be drawn taut therethrough, if necessary with block and tackle, and then fastened.

Crowding the units of the assembly together longitudinally of the clamp, as seen on Figs. 1.

2, 5. 6 and 10, which is conveniently done by tapping on the loose or partly loose retaining mem ber 35 with a'hammer or ing member 30 each to individual cables so that over their peripheries eighty degrees (180") which is an advantage, since the greater the contact surface, the more se-' curely do the binding members holdthe cables. This also tends to stretch the binding members increases the security held. Either end of a binding member 30 may be adjacent the retaining member 35 or end wall 42 and the transmallet, causes the bind-- they contact the cables verse member 33 of a binding member may be adjacent eitherend oi the adjacent binding memher, as seen on Figs. 2 and 5. It is usually desirmembers '34 of to be laidside by side, space laying a small cable between as seen on Fig. 6. The base ably fastened in may be saved by vtwo large cables members are suitposition as previously referred to, and where desired, they may be welded or otherwise fastened to bulkheads, The flanges I3 of the base member may be omitted and then the base member may be curved as desired as seen at 49 on Fig. 10. Where only one cable is to be held in position, the binding member may have a hookmember 48 at each end as shown on Fig. 9.

he binding members 30 preferably comprises a steel strap'to form the such binding members, it is desirable to form a plurality of strap members 45 about a wire 46, and to deliver them in unitary groups with nicks so that the individual binding memeasily broken off as they are required.

should be as closely adjacent to each other as condition may require.

On ships which may be subJected to shock or explosion, they are usually are loose in the next be wrapped around the,

fo more than one hundred member 35 and sliding it along the base memher, which permits of loosening the gang of cables The invention permits of using lighter materials than heretofore because there is no tend ency for any part to bend except the binding members 38, bending of which is. an. advantage as'hereinbe'fo-re explained, AsSemblyoi the cables can begin at either end and the clamp can be used upside down or in any other position; and

' applicable to standard sizes of when upside down the binding members are selfretaining by reason of the transverse members which form apart thereof.

sizes that maybe desired, sincethe binding members 3e can easily be made in any desired sizes. Whatever pressure is applied applied not at one point, which may result in flattening or deformation of the cables,-but such pressure is applied about the 'periphery thereof in such a manner as to avoid substantial deformation. The cables may present invention at bulkheads to permit a distance from walls or thereunder. The invention is useful ior'supports ing cables, pipes,-and the like, in almost any situation, and it may be used in any position or combination that may be pedient.

It is Within the spirit of this invention tornake the binding members $0 of Figs}? and 9 with the hook members 34 and 68 projecting in the same required or found exbeen assembled with the the basemember. v spirit of the inventionare possible, and certain detailshave been referred to or illustrated-for descriptive purposes only, I claimi l. A cable clampcomprising a base member having an elongated slot therein; andibinding members having parts to surround cables'and each having a part to project throughsaid slot,

compressed longitudinally of said slot;

2. A cable clamp comprising abase mem'ber' said projecting parts being interlocking having a slot therein, abinding member having a part to surround a cable'and endsto project 7 through said slot, one 'of said ends having a transverse member longer than the width of said slotand the other .of said ends having a bend 1 to surround a after assembly.

3. A cable clamp comprising abasemember having a slot therein, a binding. member comprising a strap portion havingends to project through said slot and. an intermediate. portion cable, one of saidstrap ends having a transverse member aboutv which it is bent,

1 having a slot ject through said slot to a the other of said ends being dimensioned to project under said 4. A cable therein, binding members each having a part to surround a cable and parts to probase member, projecting parts-of adjacent binding members 'mutually retaining each other against withdrawal through such slot.

The invention is cables or to any to the cables is be fixed in position by the of cleaning and paintingv V ofrwhich they form ex tensions, and to bend them to the shape shown l on the drawings after the binding membershave cable orlike units and Other variations within the when 7 base memberfand having a bend position under ,said 7 5 A cable clamp comprising a base member t P having a slot therein, binding members to surround cables with ends projecting through said slot, transverse members at one end of said binding members, hook members at the other end of said binding members and an adjustable retaining means comprising bars on each side of said base member and a member projecting through said bars and said slot to retain it in position on said base member.

6. A binding device for a cable or the like clamp comprising a binding member having end parts, and an intermediate part adapted to embrace a cable and hold it against a base provided with a slot, one of such end parts having a pin member extending transversely of the binding member from each side edge thereof to provide a portion wider than the width of the slot to engage against the inner side of the base, and the other of such end parts being narrower than the slot to enable insertion therethrough with the binding member arranged longitudinally of the slot and thus provide a holding means for the binding member which is adapted to be free of holding engagement with the base while the pin member is engaged and the intermediate part is placed about a cable, such other end part having a bend after assembly.

7. In a device for clamping cables or the like against a slotted base, binding members each comprising a strap like element adapted to embrace a cable and. having lateral extensions at one end for engagement under the edges of the slot, and the opposite end of the element being narrower than the slot and retained therein by bending against the engaged end of an adjacent binding member.

HARRY L. KINDORF. 

